Store displays

The law requires that alcohol displays and promotions in supermarkets and grocery stores can only be in a single area of the store. The aim is to limit how much shoppers are exposed to them.

You can display low-alcohol and non-alcoholic beer, wine and mead (less than 1.15% alcohol) outside the single alcohol area, but we suggest you place them there because they're promoted – and recognised by shoppers – as low-strength alternatives.

Repeat offenders' licences may be cancelled

If you break licensing laws, you are more likely to lose your licence or manager's certificate than under the old Act.

In particular, if the Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority finds you breached specific provisions 3 times within 3 years, your licence or manager's certificate can be cancelled. If it is, you won't be able to get another one for 5 years.

The specific offences are set out in section 288 of the Act. They include breaking the new advertising and promotions rules, and selling and supplying alcohol to underage drinkers and intoxicated people.